My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays.
Every morning, I would actually look at the obituaries before I had breakfast. And as a joke I said if I was not in it, I would have the breakfast.
When I wake up in the morning, I like to refresh myself and put some tonic on – one with vitamin C – and then an oxygen cream with vitamins A, C, and E. That’s very important to me so that my skin will stay moisturized throughout the day.
I couldn’t be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it’s five in the morning.
Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.
Some people never learn, no matter how much their heads hurt in the morning.
What’s the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn’t.
I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Editing is a lot about patience and discipline and just banging away at something, turning off the machine and going home at night because you’re frustrated and depressed, and then coming back in the morning to try again.
The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.
I try to woo the person whom I love. Even a good morning call to start the day is good enough for me.
The people I passed every morning as I walked up the school’s steps were full of hate. They were white, but so was my teacher, who couldn’t have been more different from them. She was one of the most loving people I had ever known.
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!
Coconut oil is my best friend – I put it all over my body every night. And in the morning, I wash it off so I’m not all greasy.
Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.
You know you’re going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
I start every morning at 7 or 7:30 in the same place – my little office where it’s dark and cozy – with a cup of the same really strong black coffee. It’s my little cocoon. There’s no phone or fax or Internet. And no music.
Even if you don’t have time for a big workout, stretching in the morning and night really changes your body.
I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.
